Sentences with phrase «ensure high achievement for all students»

To ensure high achievement for all students, we have to think differently about how to design and implement a student - centric environment for all students.

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But Emily Jackson, Growing Minds director for the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, says fostering relationships between students and their food helps ensure a lifetime of healthy eating, a habit that's generally linked with high achievement.

The focus on holding students, educators, schools, and school districts accountable for achievement is a critical element to ensuring high - quality educational opportunities and access for each student.

Under the law, these plans are intended to help states think comprehensively and collaboratively about their ESSA programs to ensure equity and excellence for all students, including a fair, equitable, and high - quality education that closes achievement gaps.

As difficult as it is to close a school, that is what is required to ensure that California's charter movement fulfills its promises to students and the state, and maintains the high level of achievement required to continue to play a transformational role in the education system for years to come.

Some specific ways your donation contributes to closing the achievement gap include: ensuring that all Brooke eighth graders participate in an annual experiential learning experience in Washington, D.C., purchasing books for every middle school student who participates in Brooke Book Club with Boston professionals, support for Brooke High's Debate Team, assistance with the costs of college text - books for our alumni, and much more!

They apparently thought it more important to ensure that students would feel validated and supported than that they would perform well academically, and this view effectively displaced high expectations for achievement in many classrooms.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, results from the study can help parents, students, and community organizations focus on strategies for improving students» attendance and course achievement for eighth and ninth graders to help ensure their on - time graduation from high school.

Within 60 days, Superintendent Huppenthal and the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) must: (1) finalize its teacher and principal evaluation guidelines; (2) give sufficient weighting to student growth so as to differentiate between teachers / principals who have contributed to more / less growth in student learning and achievement; (3) ensure that shared attribution of growth does not mask high or low performing teachers as measured by growth; and (4) guarantee that all of this is done in time for schools to be prepared to implement for the 2014 - 2015 school year.

A DC Public Charter School that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both Spanish and English

The institute is also an opportunity for educators to explore ways to use multiple measures to ensure that their assessments lead to a system of data collection and analysis that result in higher levels of student achievement.

This publication builds on the 2015 Professional Standards for Educational Leaders, which aim to ensure district and school leaders are able to improve student achievement and meet new, higher expectations.

NCSECS advocated and helped influence the law including a provision raising the bar a bit higher to ensure high standards for special education students by limiting their participation in tests based on alternate (lower) academic achievement standards to 1 % of students tested (and not just limiting the reporting of their scores on such tests, as was done under NCLB).

Example projects: Ms. Hargrave's work includes co-authoring the forthcoming The Secret to Sustainable School Transformation: Slow and Steady Wins the Race, and co-authoring Teachers Supporting Teachers: State Policies for Non-Classroom-Based Instructors; Growing a High - Quality Charter School Sector: Lessons from Tennessee; The Achievement School District: Lessons from Tennessee; Student Achievement in Charter Schools; Raising the Bar: Why Public Charter Schools Must Become More Innovative; and The Conditions for Success: Ensuring Great Public Schools in Every Neighborhood.

Generate Responsive and Practical Rules and Regulations: The commissioner must ensure that state rules and regulations reflect the spirit and intent of the law as it relates to high comparable achievement for all ELL students.

This purpose can be accomplished by ensuring that high - quality academic assessments, accountability systems, teacher preparation and training, curriculum, and instructional materials are aligned with state academic standards so that students, teachers, parents, and administrators can measure progress against common expectations for student academic achievement.

«Through their input, we can look forward to having a powerful statewide assessment that will inform local decisions to improve curriculum and instruction, raise student achievement, and ensure that all students graduate from high school ready for college or career.»

Florida's K - 12 assessment system measures students» achievement of Florida's education standards, which were developed and implemented to ensure that all students graduate from high school ready for success in college, career, and life.

«While we congratulate Uncommon Schools for their progress in raising student achievement and their steadfast commitment to ensuring that every child — regardless of family income or background — deserves a world - class education, the real winners are the students who are served by these and other high - quality charter management organizations,» said Rebecca Wolf DiBiase, managing director of programs for The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.

In this episode of podcast «Highest Aspirations», Daniela Anello, DCB Head of School, in Washington D.C. speaks on how DCB ensures high academic achievement for all students in both Spanish and English, develops leadership, and values all cultures.

The new principal's goals for 2010 were clear and ambitious: create a schoolwide culture of high expectations and engender family buy - in in order to ensure a marked improvement in student achievement.

Among other benefits, promoting race equity for all students can help schools ensure equal opportunity for high academic achievement, improved school climate, and meaningful family and community engagement.

Sela PCS is committed to ensuring that all of its students experience the diverse offerings of the District of Columbia while ensuring high quality academic achievement for its students in a dual - language immersion setting.

Acknowledging that too few high school students graduate prepared for college and 21st - century jobs, governors at the Summit committed to dramatic state action to raise high school expectations and achievement in order to help ensure the nation's competitive position in the global economy.

In Ohio for example, where the charter sector has been struggling with poor student achievement results for over a decade, charter schools in Cleveland are producing positive learning gains for their students in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality results.

Strengthening the rigor of courses taken in middle and high schools can be an effective strategy to raise student achievement levels, and ensure postsecondary and work readiness for more students.

It is our mission to ensure high academic achievement for every student by attracting and preparing outstanding leaders and supporting the performance of the urban public schools they lead at scale.»

«That helps to ensure that all students are held to the same high standard and that schools are making progress toward closing achievement and opportunity gaps, which is especially important for students living in poverty, racial and ethnic minorities, those with disabilities, those still learning English and other historically underserved groups,» Nolt added.

• Encouraged students to set and maintain high standards of achievement while comprehending and attending to their disabilities • Employed a variety of instructional techniques to assist students in grasping concepts taught in class • Observed students for signs of distress or physical ailments and ensured that their needs are immediately addressed • Assisted students in grasping concepts taught in class by providing them with support in using Braille and hearing aids • Created resources and materials to aid in teaching concepts in class • Oversaw students» activities in playgrounds and during lunch hours to ensure their comfort and wellbeing

ACT school leaders will be change agents building a culture of high achievement for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, and ensuring improved cultural integrity is a priority.